Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Miss Ameraucana]

If it doesn't meet the Ameraucana standard it's an EE. The bird still has to meet the accepted color varieties or breed true atleast 50% of the time.

 

[FridayYet]

Ok.....so what are they mixed with? 
And what happens when you have a 'EE' with slate legs but doesn't fit the 'recognized' color scheme? 

I have some nice ones that are EE mixed with Cuckoo Marans. . An EE doesn't have to meet any cool standards, it's always an EE.

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

I have some nice ones that are EE mixed with Cuckoo Marans. . An EE doesn't have to meet any cool standards, it's always an EE.

So true! Post them you know where

I'd seriously like to see the pics!

 

[LaPoulet]

My splash juvies seem to be low in the pecking order. I read an article about chickens recognizing color and noticing when someone is different. Has anyone else had any issues particularly with your splash colored chicks/chickens getting picked on?

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

I only have one splash pullet. Almost 4 months old...She's probably close to the bottom in rank out of 16 of her kind. But the others don't bother her or visa versa. I believe my 2 dominant pullets are a black and a blue. I lost one bird out of my 21 at 2 weeks of age. It was another splash baby. They snuggled together. She's been a loner ever since. But gets along well and will lay by the other pullets..

 

[MorganC]

Yes, I have found that certain colors bring attention more than others. Red or brown being one of them. Chickens are also not great with patterns like texture and are very apt to react negatively to patterns that 'look suspicious'

 

[junebuggena]

Ok.....so what are they mixed with?
And what happens when you have a 'EE' with slate legs but doesn't fit the 'recognized' color scheme?

Hatchery Easter Eggers aren't really mixed at all. They just haven't been selectively bred like Ameraucana have been. The Ameraucana breed was actually developed using the hatchery type birds.

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

Hatchery Easter Eggers aren't really mixed at all. They just haven't been selectively bred like Ameraucana have been. The Ameraucana breed was actually developed using the hatchery type birds. 

I guess it would make sense that their breeding the same lines of Easter Eggers. I've kind of wondered about that..if they actually bred lines of EEs or a cross out of. Blue egg gene carrier and just something different i.e. any bird readily available

 

[lomine]

Hatchery Easter Eggers aren't really mixed at all. They just haven't been selectively bred like Ameraucana have been. The Ameraucana breed was actually developed using the hatchery type birds. 

My understanding was that Ameraucana were bred from the bearded muffed tailed Araucana that became unacceptable as Araucana when the breed standard was defined in the 1976. When the standard stated they had to be tufted and rumpless a group worked on getting the tailed variety accepted as a different breed. EEs were created by hatcheries mixing Araucana with other breeds to increase productivity, not really caring about breed standards.

 

[MorganC]

That's what I thought!
Honestly, logically, they aren't mixed, cuz they look so similar and there are only so many breeds that lay colored eggs.
Plus Am. can lay more than just blue eggs.
So Is it safe to assume that EE are just pet quality Am?